Industrial production declined 0.4% in December, the Federal Reserve reported Friday.
The production decrease followed a revised 0.9% drop in November, first reported as a 0.6% decline.
Capacity utilization slipped to 76.5% in December from a revised 76.9% the previous month, first reported as 77.0%.
Economists polled by Thomson Reuters projected a 0.2% decrease for industrial production and a 76.8% capacity utilization rate.










